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“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
― Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²
“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Brainwalker
― Brainwalker
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
― The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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